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Chocolate: Chocolate Cake

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon mixed spice (this is not specified as to type)
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup superfine sugar
3 eggs
2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
2 tablespoons hot water
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
2 cinnamon sticks (2")
1/4 cup dark rum
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut up
melted white chocolate


Recipe

Preheat oven to 325ºF. Generously grease a 5-cup fluted or plain tube pan and dust lightly with flour. Sift flour, baking powder and spices into a bowl. Add margarine, superfine sugar and eggs. Blend cocoa powder with hot water and add to flour mixture. Beat well with a wooden spoon 2 minutes or 1 minute if using an electric mixer. Turn mixture into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven 1-1/4 hours or until well risen and cake begins to shrink from edges of pan. Carefully turn out cake onto a wire rack and cool.

Combine granulated sugar and 2/3 cup water in a saucepan. Add cinnamon and heat gently, stirring to dissolve sugar. Boil 5 minutes. Add rum, remove from heat, and discard cinnamon; let cool slightly. Place cake on a plate. Spoon syrup over cake and let stand 2 hours. Melt chocolate; carefully spoon over cake, spreading to give a smooth even coating. Let stand refrigerated several hours, or overnight. Drizzle with white chocolate, let it set, and serve.